The Krude Experience - Put Up Yer Dukes

Damn. Sometimes getting nostalgic about good childhood memories
can pay off in a major way. Case in point-my love for the TV show The Dukes
Of Hazzard. Good ol' Amazon Prime recently put a ton of vintage Dukes
episodes up and Krude just had to start watching again. It had been no less
than 30 years since I had watched that show. So I started watching at the
beginning of the series. Little did I remember,but oh so infatuated with I saw.
Holy fucking shit! This show kicked ass. And Krude wants to review episode 2 of
season 1 of the series for you. Daisy's Song.

Episode 2, Daisy's Song deals with Daisy Duke having a song
she has written(?!?) being stolen and recorded by Jessi Colter (show balladeer
Waylon Jennings real life old lady). So the Duke family has to find a way to
solve this crisis,the only way they how.What was nice about the Dukes early on
during their run was that the episodes were mostly shot on location. Not on a
Hollywood sound stage. So the premise of being in the South seems all the more
authentic.

This episode is noteworthy for a few things. We find out
that Luke Duke allegedly had a girlfriend who turned to prostitution after they
split.There is a whorehouse on wheels (Winnebago) that the Duke boys will use
to thwart the bad guys. Boss Hogg cheats on Lulu (his wife). And the Duke boys
had a different car other than the General Lee at one time. Minor facts though
essential to Dukes nerds. Like me.

Car chases,gratuitous camel toe, dipshit cops,explosives,etc....
the usual Dukes elements are on display in this early episode. For the Duke family
(who are all on probation for moonshining) they commit a ton of felonies every
show. How is somebody on probation to the Federal government allowed to own
sticks of dynamite? And use that dynamite to destroy a cop car? Only in Hazzard
County, tv land.

I have to admit,I never thought I would enjoy an old Dukes
episode as much as I did. I never realized how sleazy this show really was. And
I realize that a show like The Dukes Of Hazzard could never exist in our
current national climate. That's just a crying shame.